The deep crimson gelatinous domain spread silently, and the air was filled with a sickly sweet scent of blood.
Within the domain, five contracted creatures suddenly froze mid-movement. An unnatural scarlet glow flashed in their eyes. This was the power of Primordial Assimilation taking effect!
"Roar!"
William panicked to find that the soul link between him and his Blazing Lion had been forcibly severed.
The lion's pupils were completely consumed by blood. As if controlled by invisible threads, it suddenly turned around and slammed into the unprepared William with all its might.
"Pfft!" William spat out a mouthful of blood. His body flew uncontrollably toward Kylen.
Kylen calmly lifted his right arm. The moment William drew near, he delivered a precise elbow strike to William's face with a heavy thud.
"Bang!"
Blood splattered and teeth shattered. William flew backward like a broken kite. His screams echoed through the gorge.
"Aaaaah! Kill him! Kill him for me!"
Cedric exclaimed in shock, "He's already at the Two-Star Ascension Realm! Don't fight him alone! William, are you okay?"
Jessica stared in disbelief at the Sun wheel Flower she controlled. The scorching light it emitted had no effect on Avelia at all; instead, it made Avelia even more radiant in the sunlight.
At this moment, Jessica felt like she was the one trapped in the shadows, while Avelia bathed in sunlight had become a light she could never reach.
On Saint Rose Square, the onlookers' attitudes shifted instantly.
"How dare that William even think about laying his hands on Senior Avelia? He's asking for death!"
"That strike was so satisfying!"
"So he's already advanced to the Ascension Realm. No wonder he's so confident."
"But facing nearly a hundred people is still too hard. The advantage of his realm isn't enough to make up for the numerical gap."
Avelia was a sacred, untouchable figure in their hearts. William's arrogant words and actions immediately turned public opinion in Kylen's favor.
Yet they were right, taking on a hundred opponents alone was almost impossible for a low-tier Contractor.
In fact, Avelia was indeed feeling the pressure. Like a crimson goddess of war, she condensed her blood-colored gelatin into blades and shields to fend off attacks from all directions.
Flames, frost, and wind blades all attacks crumbled before her gelatinous shield. She also had to distract herself to protect Kylen, leaving her with only enough strength to barely weaken the enemies' onslaught.
The five contracted creatures controlled by Primordial Assimilation were soon taken down by the others.
There were just too many enemies.
Wave after wave of attacks came one after another.
The combined strikes of wind and fire-type contracted creatures constantly evaporated the blood, and the spiritual attacks launched by undead-type contracted creatures from underground were impossible to fully defend against.
The amount of blood she could manipulate was growing less and less.
The scales of victory seemed to be tilting toward William's side, and Kylen's situation was growing increasingly perilous.
Avelia glanced at Kylen with concern.
Kylen gave her a reassuring look. "It's time."
He pulled out a dagger, sliced open his palm, and sprinkled his blood into the air.
This action confused everyone. Why would he harm himself?
"Avelia! Inject my blood into their bodies!"
Though confused, Avelia carried out the order immediately. She condensed Kylen's blood into over a hundred nearly invisible, thin needles and shot them precisely at each contracted creature.
The needles entered their bodies but caused no visible harm.
William, who had received treatment, sneered, "Hahaha, are you at your wits' end? Look, it's useless at all!"
Felix joined in the mockery. "Kylen, so what if you advanced to the Ascension Realm? Do you really think you can defeat all of us alone?"
The other students also breathed a little easier. A student named Darren said, "He and that Vampiric Slime are really strong. It took so many of us to surround them just to barely suppress them."
William covered his broken mouth and ordered, "Charge! Take them down!"
At their masters' commands, the contracted creatures launched another siege, with Jessica's Sun wheel Flower leading the way.
Avelia leaned against Kylen's back, her voice tired. "My primordial essence is almost exhausted…"
Kylen patted her gently. "You've done well enough. Leave the rest to me."
Under everyone's gaze, Kylen carried Avelia on his back and faced the siege of over seventy contracted creatures alone. His eyes were firm, with no trace of fear.
The onlookers in Saint Rose Square couldn't help but sigh.
"Sure enough… he's reached his limit, hasn't he?"
"If Avelia hadn't fallen in the realm, they would never lose."
"This also proves that Kylen relies too much on Avelia. He has no talent of his own, right?"
Almost everyone, including Seraphina, believed that Kylen's defeat was already a foregone conclusion.
Only Principal Orion stared intently at Kylen. Someone who could subdue an Origin Sequence contracted creature could never be mediocre.
On the slope, Kylen faced the encirclement of beast, plant, and undead-type contracted creatures coming from all directions.
He slowly turned sideways, lifted his right arm, and spread his five fingers.
"Creatures."
"In the name of the King, I command you to take your own lives."
The wound on his palm was still bleeding. That seemingly thin figure exuded an unshakable authority even in the face of despair.
Everyone was about to mock him, and the onlookers in Saint Rose Square also shook their heads. But what happened next left everyone dumbfounded.
Those beast, undead, and plant-type contracted creatures stopped moving in unison. They turned to face Kylen and used every means to let out sounds of submission.
"Your will be done, Our King!"
S-Rank Talent: Primordial Blood Pact!
Creatures injected with a small amount of Kylen's blood would temporarily become his loyal blood servants, unable to resist, unable to disobey.
"Pfft!"
Over seventy contracted creatures took their own lives in unison. Blood mist filled the air, dyeing the ground red.
Everywhere were broken vines, the corpses of exotic beasts, and dissipating spiritual forms.
William and his followers stared with their mouths wide open, unable to believe what they were seeing. Shock, fear, trembling, despair, all kinds of emotions threatened to shatter their will.
Saint Rose Square fell into silence, then erupted into a roar of astonishment.
"WTF! What kind of ability is this? Is it his talent? Or Avelia's?"
"No, Avelia is clearly exhausted. This is Kylen's ability!"
"Why did they suddenly obey Kylen's orders?"
"I get it now! Earlier, Avelia injected Kylen's blood into the contracted creatures. This is his talent!"
"That's terrifying! What kind of talent is this?!"
Kylen carried Avelia on his back and walked slowly toward William, who was kneeling on the ground and trembling.
"No… This can't be! It's all fake!" William rambled in a frenzy.
Kylen looked down at him, his voice cold. "This is the command of the King."
"The King's will cannot be defied."
"As for you, you don't even have the qualification to die by my hand."
He lifted his foot and slammed William's head hard into the ground.
"Bang!"
William struggled a few times, then fell completely unconscious.
Kylen's gaze swept over Cedric, Felix, and the others.
These followers, who had been so arrogant earlier, now knelt on the ground, tears and snot streaming down their faces as they begged for mercy.
Their sudden shift from arrogance to obsequiousness was disgusting.
"Get out."
He considered that this was, after all, an entrance test, and causing a large number of casualties would have a bad impact. If this were a real abyssal rift, he would never have shown mercy.
The men felt as if they had been granted amnesty. They tore up their admission certificates one after another and withdrew from the test.
Finally, Kylen's gaze fell on Jessica.